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Calendar No. 88. 



64:TH UONGRESS, { 

1st Session. \ 



SENATE. 



J Report 
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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. 



Januaey 31, 1916. — Ordered to be printed. 



Mr. Smith of Georgia, from the Committee on Education and Labor, 
submitted the following 

REPORT. 

[To accompany S. 703.] 

The Committee on Education and Labor, to whom was referred 
the bill (S. 703) to provide for the promotion of vocational educa- 
tion; to provide for cooperation with the States in the promotion 
of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries ; to 
provide for cooperation with the States in the preparation of teach- 
ers of vocational subjects, and to appropriate money and regulate 
its expenditure, report it back to the Senate with the recommenda- 
tion that it do pass. 

A Commission on National Aid to Vocational Education was cre- 
ated by act of Congress approved January 20, 1914. This commis- 
sion consisted of nine members, appointed by the President. Two 
of the members were Senators and two were Members of the House. 
Upon the commission were the director of the Indiana Bureau of 
Legislative Information and secretary of the Indiana Commission of 
Industrial Agricultural Education; the director of the Manhattan 
Trade School, of New York City, and member of the Massachusetts 
Factory Inspection Commission; the president of the International 
Glove Workers' Union, of Chicago, and member of the committee on 
industrial education of the American Federation of Labor; the sec- 
retary of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Edu- 
cation, of New York City; and the special agent of the Bureau of 
Labor Statistics and member of the Massachusetts Commission on 
Industrial Education. 

The bill was reported and introduced in the Sixty-third Congress, 
but not pressed at that time as it was deemed best to give an oppor- 
tunity for its study and criticism by the various organizations 
throughout the United States. The bill has received commendation 
from nearly every quarter. The only suggested change is with refer- 
ence to the formation of the Federal Board for Vocational Educa 



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tion. The bill names the Postms/ster General, the Secretary of the 
Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, 
and the Secretary of Labor, with the Commissioner of Education 
as the executive officer of the board. 

It has been urged that the bill should be amended so as to pro- 
vide a board on vocational education composed of men who can give 
their entire time to the work. In reporting the bill without amend- 
ment the committee has not passed upon this question, but asks its 
consideration by the Senate. Members of the committee were dis- 
posed to favor an amendment which would create a board of the 
character suggested, and it is entirely possible that an amendmnt 
will be presented by the committee on this line before the bill is acted 
upon in the Senate. 

We commend to the consideration of the Senate the report of the 
Commission on National Aid to Vocational Education, which ex- 
plains in detail the bill now reported, and gives reasons for its 
adoption. This report is so full that your committee deem it 'un- 
necessary again to go into details upon this subject. 

Your committee desire as a part of their report to express appreci- 
ation for the earnest and faithful work performed by Senator Page, 
of Vermont, in behalf of vocational education and in connection with 
the work of the Vocational Commission. 

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